On the actuality entailment of Spanish root modals

This paper examines the actuality entailments of Spanish past perfective root modals. I wil side with those authors that maintain that the phenomenon is syntactic. Nevertheless, the emphasis will not be on scope differences between projections, but on the fact that the root modal periphrasis is an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Angeles Carrasco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2019-10-01
Series:Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/4842